Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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218. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of grants made to companies through the online retail scheme to date in 2020, by county in tabular form. [44466/20]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The purpose of the online Retail Scheme is to enable Irish-owned retailers to enhance their digital capability and to develop a more competitive online offer that will enable an increase in their customer base and build a more resilient business in the domestic and global marketplace, both online and offline.

The recent COVID-19 Online Retail Scheme is implemented by Enterprise Ireland on behalf of my Department in response to the COVID-19 crisis and the urgent need for retail companies to achieve a step change in online capability.

Please see below table presenting the number of grants approved, and their value, by county, for the COVID-19 Online Retail Scheme (Calls 1 and 2).